The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.

We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women.

There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

We must have...a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.